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Promoter hypermethylation is associated with current smoking, age, gender and survival in bladder cancer
23 May 2007
Abstract excerpt
Hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes is central to the pathogenesis of human malignancy, yet this alteration's etiology remains unclear, and its clinical impact has not yet been studied using an approach that can yield directly generalizable results. Therefore, we sought to examine both of these issues in bladder cancer, seeking to understand the characteristics of epidemiologically well-defined patient...
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